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PARSHIP - Dating Site Review
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PARSHIP
Parship UK is the ideal place to start if you are looking for a long-term relationship. Find someone who really is right for you with the site dedicated to matching success.
Number of Members: 3,000,000
Cost: From £20
Regions Covered: United Kingdom
Online Since: 2001
Category : Match Making
URL : parship.co.uk
PARSHIP
Originating in Germany, and as one of the largest dating websites in Europe, Parship.de and Parship.co.uk for the UK, has a lot to offer their members, and there are millions of members with profiles. The reason why it is the largest is that it has one of the best success rates for matches, making it very popular for singles. Parship.co.uk uses a thorough compatibility test to help you find a "perfect" match for you. When you search for a profile, you can see how a person ranks with your wants and needs in a mate.
The website offers a great tutorial, a lengthy description of what they offer, many success stories and a free parship test to begin. However, they don't allow you to browse before you sign up. So, if you create a free profile, you can search around and see if they have what you want before you decide on becoming a premier member. Creating a profile will take a few minutes as they have several questions they want answered. Their website is very easy to navigate. They are very open with their mission and determined to help singles in Europe find their mate.
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Amy
February 19th, 2009 at 12:27 PM
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I agree with Pauline, Parship.co.uk is one of the worst sites around (along with eHarmony apparently). I'm currently a member with Parship, signed up for 3-months because it looked and sounded good. Bravo on their marketing team, who use media, i.e. trusted newspapers, TV advertising etc to market their company. It’s been about 2 weeks now and so far haven't had any new recommended matches than the ones displayed for me when I first joined. And the blurry pictures stay blurry until the other user decides to release it for your viewing, really doesn't help, as you can't see who you're talking to. I'm basically wasting my £57 for a 3-month membership. What’s worse is that I checked my bank statement and I’ve been charged twice for the subscription. I had started to use my credit card to pay but then realised they had this thing called "One click" I think it’s called, which is a faster way to pay really, after keying in my info, it took me back to the same page as the credit card. Thinking I had to go onto that page to get to the completed payment stage, I clicked to register. I thought it odd that I got 2 emails one from one click and another from Parship... then I checked my bank account and yup, I've been charged twice.
They're only form of contact is via e-mail form and I have yet to hear from them regarding my partial refund for not giving me the service that's suppose to be there, and refunding the extra charge they took out.
Beware of this site!
My tip would be to do a bit of research and digging before joining any dating site, and be sure to take note of what other members of the site have said and not the marketing people giving glowing reviews.
Sarah
April 25th, 2009 at 08:44 AM
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Parship is potentially a really good system. I like the way that the photos are not visible until you release them. And of course you can see whether you're going to be compatible with each potential partner, and where potential friction may arise. Great idea.
The main problem is that the website is really slow. Pages take up to two minutes to load! As each potential partner has four pages to look through, this is just mind blowingly slow and it's impossible to enjoy the process.
I hope they improve this, as I'd like to give it a proper chance to find me my Mr Right!
Pauline
February 4th, 2009 at 05:12 AMI would not recommend Parship. I initially found the site difficult to navigate, so wrote asking for help three times, there was no response, this was within the eight day cooling-off period. As I was unable to contact any members on the site, I decided to apply for a refund. There's no easy explanation on how to get a refund if you wish to cancel your subscription before eight days, even though I wrote asking them how to do this, again no reply, so I forfeited my £20 subscription for no service whatsoever. A waste of money. The only transaction that was speedy was them taking my money out.